Family Christmas Treasures Author:Kacey Barron (Editor) Christmas preparations and anticipation: — from Nutcracker / E.T.A. Hoffman -- — The stage-coach / Washington Irving -- — The Christmas tree / Samuel Coleridge -- — from My Antonia / Willa Cather -- — from The wind in the willows / Kenneth Grahame -- — from A Christmas memory / Truman Capote -- — Blue Christmas / Terry Andrews -- — Christmas customs, st... more »ories, and lore:
Christmas every day / William Dean Howells --
from The Christmas box / Richard Paul Evans --
The legend of the Christmas tree / Clement Clarke Moore --
The legend of the poinsettia / Pat Mora & Charles Ramirez Berg --
The tree that didn't get trimmed / Christopher Morley --
Kidnapped Santa Claus / L. Frank Baum --
A Christmas story / Katherine Anne Porter --
Christmas memories:
from A child's Christmas in Wales / Dylan Thomas --
Christmas in Maine / Robert P. Tristram Coffin --
'Twas the night b4 Christmas / Mary Marcdante --
from Christmas in Plains / Jimmy Carter --
The Christmas tree in Brooklyn / Betty Smith --
Christmas at sea / Robert Louis Stevenson --
The spirit of Christmas:
from A Christmas carol / Charles Dickens --
from Little women / Louisa May Alcott --
from The good fairy / Harriet Beecher Stowe --
from Sassafrass, cypress & indigo / Ntozake Shange --